Once again, in researching today's post, I found common ground with a well-known African-American. For three years, I taught at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. This afternoon, I found that the subject of today's post, the poet and activist Langston Hughes, was accepted at Lincoln in 1925, and graduated from there in 1929. Shortly before that, he began to participate in putting together the cultural movement that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance.
As a poet, Hughes' work was most influenced by that of Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. Having acted as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, Hughes also contributed to translations into English of the work of such giants of Spanish literature as Federico Garcia Lorca.
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